Screenwriting 101: Stan Chervin “If your goal as a screenwriter is to make a lot of money, you’re doomed to fail. If your goal as a screenwriter is to produce the best…
Daily Dialogue — August 13, 2019 Jack Singer: We’re gonna jump out of one plane? Roy Bacon: At 3,000 feet. Jack Singer: And these chutes are fool-proof, right? Roy Bacon…
Mark, that moment *always* chokes me up. Thanks for your observations. I especially like the idea that the folks in the balcony are akin to angels. Lovely image.
Being and Writing in the Moment Time is a mystery, especially in a screenplay. As writers, we can leap through decades from one scene to the next. Or we can stretch a…
On Writing “A script is to a movie as a blueprint is to a building. So many of the things that will later be major, visceral aspects of the…
Daily Dialogue — August 18, 2019 “All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you’re a dead man.”
Great Scene: “To Kill A Mockingbird” “To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The State has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the…
How to Write a Logline “Always remember this: It’s a logline, not a longline. It’s job is to sell the story, not tell the story.”
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “The Social Network” The entire 11-part series on the award-winning movie script.
Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Cutting The Picture [Part 3] “Another factor in cutting is “tempo.” The author should decide the relative length of scenes.”
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2019 Scene-Writing Challenge: Week 1 Here are all of Week 1’s prompts for this year’s Scene-Writing Challenge.
Daily Dialogue — August 10, 2019 Pop Fisher: You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer. Roy Hobbs: My dad wanted me to be a baseball player. Pop Fisher: Well you’re better…
Writing and the Creative Life: “The Power of Structured Procrastination” “The beauty of the structured procrastination method is that it recognizes the extreme challenge in changing that pro-tomorrow vein, and…
Daily Dialogue — August 9, 2019 “Vaughan into the wind-up in his first offering. [pitch sails outside, past the catcher, and to the backstop] Juuuusst a bit outside.”
What Type of Scene Is It? “It is important to understand what type of scene you’re dealing with because each requires a slightly different approach when you write…
The Business of Screenwriting: Anatomy of a Deal (Part 4) “A majority of studio projects do not get made. Is it considered a strike against a writer if their project dies on the vine? Not…
Daily Dialogue — August 8, 2019 Billy Beane: It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball. This kind of thing, it’s fun for the fans. It sells tickets and hot dogs…
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